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"I feel like she embodies the kind of consciousness that modern progressives and people seeking any kind of spiritual or social liberation, she embodies it, and it is tangible. "It was enough inspiration and motivation for a year's worth of any kind of organizing activity or storytelling," Keshia Hannam, an audience member who lives in Bed-Stuy, said. She shared with the audience her experience teaching at the University of California Los Angeles, being on the FBI's list of the 10 Most Wanted Fugitives, and her work for intersectional abolitionist feminism today. Communist Party and the Black Panther Party.

Angela Davis signs copies of her reissued book, "An Autobiography." Photo: Miranda Levingston for BK Reader.Īt the talkback, she recounted her childhood in Jim Crow Alabama her political activity in a New York high school and her work with the U.S. "It was wonderful to feel the warmth of the audience, I couldn't really see anyone, because there were no lights on the audience, but I really felt it," Davis told BK Reader.

"I am excited to be publishing this new edition of my autobiography with Haymarket Books at a time when so many are making collective demands for radical change and are seeking a deeper understanding of the social movements of the past," Davis said. The event was more than just a book talk celebrating the reissuing of Davis' 1974 memoir, "An Autobiography " it was a homecoming: Davis lived in Bed-Stuy as a high schooler, which is where she got her start in organizing.Īnd, despite the packed Harvey Theater house, the conversation was intimate.

Davis, the iconic activist at the center of the Black Liberation, feminist, queer and prison abolitionist movements, was welcomed for an on-stage conversation with political scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Fort Greene on Friday.